Church demands the victim apologize to pastor's wife since the pastor did the rape.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I've lived in a couple of Muslim countries, Arky.

What he wrote doesn't comport with my experience.

What who wrote? Black Pigeon?

Do you think you would have had a more in depth experience if you lived there as a Muslim of Arabic decent rather than a Caucasian atheist?

I observed plenty of Muslim women not wearing headdress.

[Arkilogue]

What who wrote? Black Pigeon?

Do you think you would have had a more in depth experience if you lived there as a Muslim of Arabic decent rather than a Caucasian atheist?

I observed plenty of Muslim women not wearing headdress.

Which countries?

[GrandizerII]

I observed plenty of Muslim women not wearing headdress.

Which countries?

Fucking kidding me? Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, etc.

[Arkilogue]

Which countries?

Fucking kidding me? Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, etc.

The hell you say.......

Was not aware the Islamic countries which Thumpalumicus visited was such common knowledge.

And isn't Et Cetera an Italian country?

[Thumpalumpacus]

I observed plenty of Muslim women not wearing headdress.

Which countries?

Iran and Saudi Arabia. In Saudi, they all wore hijabs, and most wore niqabs as well. In Iran, this wasn't so when I lived there, in the mid-70s. I lived in Teheran, a city of five million at the time, for over four years ... so I had much opportunity to see the various ways Muslims interpreted their own dogma. For instance, extremely pious Muslims would, on the last day of Ramadan, go into the streets and beat themselves bloody with chains and scourges, as an act of expiation ... and while they were doing that, others would be walking by in Western dress taking no notice of them.

Here's a street scene taken in Teheran in the early 70s (not my picture):



Now, I'm betting you're thinking, "Ah, but they had that revolution in Iran, and things are different now!" And yes, they are, but it rather proves my point, because it was a change in government, not a change in the religion of the citizens, which prompted the more restrictive laws.

Which countries?

Fucking kidding me? Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, etc.

There are those as well, but I think he was asking after my own personal experience..

[Arkilogue]

There are those as well, but I think he was asking after my own personal experience..

Yes I was and thank you for sharing =)

[Crossless2.0]

I think the girl should apologize:  'Mrs. Pastor - I'm truly and deeply sorry that I didn't cut the balls off of your perverted, paedophilliac, rapist husband to prevent his doing to other underage girls what he did to me.  I'm also sorry that I belonged to a church whose members did absolutely nothing to prevent this absolute horror of a human being you call a pastor from preying on children.'

Boru

  Well played, sir! Well played!

[Thumpalumpacus]

There are those as well, but I think he was asking after my own personal experience..

Yes I was and thank you for sharing =)

No problem, thanks for asking. I just spent the last half-hour wandering down memory lane -- looking up old streets in Google image searches, reading the Wikis on the two schools I attended in Iran. Thanks for setting my head in that direction, nostalgia isn't always a bad thing, right?

[Arkilogue]

Yes I was and thank you for sharing =)

No problem, thanks for asking. I just spent the last half-hour wandering down memory lane -- looking up old streets in Google image searches, reading the Wikis on the two schools I attended in Iran. Thanks for setting my head in that direction, nostalgia isn't always a bad thing, right?

What else do we really have beside the maps in time and space that we've traced with our lives? What greater treasure is there than the living of a life rich with experience?

Beside my map I like to keep a fresh sheet of drawing paper and some pencils.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Indeed, and a head full of plans, and a full backpack. The road goes ever onward ...